Kudos

«  To Nea Nyholm, who won a medal for “Best in Drawing” a medal for “Best in Painting” and she won the Teacher’s Choice Award at the Siouxland Art Conference Student Showcase. 

«  To the Middle School boys and girls track teams who won the Little Lion invitational on Tuesday

«  To the Middle School math kids did a super job in the Math bee

«  To The Warriors Boys Track team who won the Siouxland Conference track meet making it the third title this year (District football, Siouxland basketball).  Conference champs:were

o    4x400 Relay team (O'Donnell, Stewart, Kortlever, Borchers),

o    Shuttle Hurdle Relay team (Van't Hof, Bakker, Hooyer, Rozeboom)

o    110m hurdles – Dylon Van't Hof

o    400m hurdles - Dylon Van't Hof

o    800m Run – Chris Borchers

o    3200m Run – Haile Duden

«  To the members of the Warrior Girls Track team who finished 2^nd in the Siouxland Conference meet.  Conference Champs were

o    4x200 Relay (Kortlever, Sitzmann, Beaver, Boer)

o    4x800 (Harald, Sitzmann, Verburg, Miranda Mouw)

o    4x100 (Kortlever, Aubrey Sandbulte, Beaver, Katie TeGrotenhuis)

o    400m Hurdles Payton Boer

The use of percentages to grade students is mathematically flawed and unfair to students

The use of percentages to grade students is mathematically flawed and unfair to students. If you ask someone the temperature today, do you want him to give you the actual temperature or an average of the temperatures of the last 10 days? Which is more accurate? In a worker’s paycheck, would he want to see his actual week’s pay, or an average weekly pay which includes weeks before a pay raise?

It is unfair to students to include grades from their attempts to learn averaged in with the grade that shows their true final learning. Example: In teaching the learning target “writing informational text,” parents have the right to know how well their students can actually perform the skill without averaging in grades from their initial drafts. That’s an unfair practice.

Standards Based Grading resolves this issue.  Students are assessed on what they know and can do.

Kudos

• To Lydia Faith Wiersma who checked in at 7 lbs 8 oz. Mom and daughter are doing very well.
• To Deb Rozeboom and the hot lunch crew for an excellent report from the nutrition site visit Tuesday
• The boys and girls soccer teams who debut this past week in Sioux Center High School’s first ever soccer competition
• All of the great Kinsey staff that helped to cover or offered to cover classes so staff could go visit other schools this past week and next week!
• To the Sioux Center High School Men’s Quartet (Andrew De Jongh, Aaron Van Beek, Ty Lassen, Matthew Bruxvoort) received Outstanding Performance last Saturday at Solo & Ensemble Contest. 
• To Mr. Landegent and all of the students involved with putting on a great performance at Kinsey on Thursday night!

Teens and Social Media

Grant Willits, Middle School Counselor, shared the following link with me.

Teens and Social Media

Late Start

Sioux Center Schools are two hours late today. Includes Sioux Center Christian.  No AM Transitional Kindergarten

HS Solo/Ensemble cancelled

HS Solo/Ensemble Pre-Contest Recital for tonight has been cancelled

Kudos

    

   

   

   

    «  To All-State Individual Speech qualifier Courtney Woelber who will be performing her poetry selections at the Individual Speech All-State Festival on Monday, March 31, at UNI.

    «  To the Middle School Show Choir Breakout received Grand Champions in the Middle School division (including 1A-4A) and received Best Vocals at Westwood..

    «  To the High School Show Choir – 2nd in 3A at Lewis Central and 2nd in 2A at Westwood.

    «  To Todd Arends, 2014 Iowa Sports Spotlight Iowa High School Boys Basketball 2A Coach of the Year

    «  To Andrew O’Donnell Iowa Newspaper Association Class 2A All-State basketball 2^nd team

    «  To Alex Bakker 2014 IowaPreps.com All State Basketball 2^nd Team